Sporting CP drawn against AC Doukas in Challenge Cup

Sporting CP will take on the Greek side AC Doukas in the Challenge Cup quarter-finals.

The Greeks come into the game on the back of a double win against the Turkish side Tasova Yibo SK (32-28 and 34-30).

Should Sporting CP move into the semi-finals, the winners of JMS Hurry-Up vs. HKM Sala will await.

Quarter-finals (25/26th of March and 1st/2nd of April)
HC Sloga Pozega (SRB) vs Valur (ISL)
AHC Potaissa Turda (ROU) vs HB Dudelange (LUX)
AC Doukas (GRE) vs SPORTING CP (POR)
JMS Hurry-Up (NED) vs HKM Sala (SVK)

Semi-finals (22nd/23rd and 29th/30th of April)
JMS Hurry-Up vs HKM Sala - AC Doukas vs SPORTING CP
HC Sloga Pozega vs Valur - AHC Potaissa Turda vs HB Dudelange

Semi-final encounter with V. Guimarães or Sp. Covilhã awaits the winner

Sporting CP will travel to Desportivo Chaves in the Portuguese Cup semi-finals. The fixture will be played from the 17th to the 19th of January. The round's other matches are Benfica-Leixões, Sp. Covilhã-V. Guimarães and Estoril-Académica.

The draw also set up the semi-final fixtures, with the winner of Sporting CP's match to face the winner of Vitória Guimarães or Sporting Covilhã.

Sporting CP's director for football, Octávio Machado, was at the draw and was keen to alert to the dangers of a Cup visit to Chaves: "It is always a nice trip and it is the chance to take some good football to a part of the region that has been denied of that in recent years. Chaves are a team that demand our respect and they have already knocked out FC Porto. That won't take away from our determination and we want to reach the final of this competition."

Jorge Jesus's side on the road in the Portuguese Cup last-16

Sporting CP will travel to Vitória Futebol Clube (Vitória de Setúbal) in the Portuguese Cup last-16, in what is the only encounter between two Liga NOS teams.

The fixture will be played between the 13th and 15th od December in Estádio do Bonfim.

Sporting CP's director for football, Octávio Machado, was at the draw and noted: “It is a respectable opponent and I have a lot of personal admiration for them. It will be a hard match, but we want to get into the final of the Portuguese Cup. We will do everything we can to win this."

Draw in full:

Leixões - Tondela

Real Massamá - Benfica

Estoril Praia - Sanjoanense

Torrense - Chaves

SC Braga - SC Covilhã

Académica - Penafiel

V. Setúbal - SPORTING

V. Guimarães - Vilafranquense

Seeded teams join put of twelve qualified from the UEFA Futsal Cup Main Round

The groups for the UEFA Futsal Cup Elite Round are now set and Sporting CP can sit back and relax ahead of next Friday's draw, which will see the introduction of four seeded teams.

Teams qualified From Main Round:

Group 1: Győri ETO (HUN), Brezje Maribor (SVN)

Group 2: Araz Naxçıvan (AZE), FC Feniks (KOS)

Group 3: Nikars Riga (LVA), Hamburg Panthers (GER)

Group 4: Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB), Nacional Zagreb (CRO)

Group 5: SPORTING CP (POR), Real Rieti (ITA)

Group 6: EP Chrudim (CZE), City'US Târgu Mureş (ROU)

 

Teams directly found: Ugra Yugorsk (RUS, detentor do troféu), Kairat Almaty (KAZ), Inter FS (ESP), FC Dynamo (RUS)

Sporting in CERH European League Group C

Sporting will feature in CERH European League Group C, along with Forte dei Marmi (Italy), Reus (Spain) and Dinan Quevert (France).

Sporting's Pedro Gil already knows two of the sides well, having represented Forte dei Marmi for the last three seasons and Reus from 2007 to 2009.

Fixtures in full:

Sporting CP – Dinan Quevert (5th of November)

Reus – Sporting CP (26th of November)

Sporting CP – Forte dei Marmi (17th of December)

Forte dei Marmi – Sporting CP (14th of January)

Dinan Quevert – Sporting CP (4th of February)

Sporting CP – Reus (18th of February)

First-leg in Italy on the 6th of February

Sporting CP will face the Italian team Sarzana in the CERS Cup quarter-finals. Hockey Sarzana currently sit in 11th place in their domestic league, with 12 points.

The first-leg will be played in Sarzana on the 6th of February, with the return fixture in Lisbon in March.

Last-16 results in full:

- Matera (Italy)-Alcoy (Spain), 5-3 (8-7 aggregate)

- Follonica (Italy)-Wasken Lodi (Italy), 2-4 (4-6 aggregate)

- Coutras (France)-OC Barcelos (Portugal), 10-19 (8-7 aggregate)

- Uttingen (Switzerland)-Sarzana (Italy), 3-3 (6-8 aggregate)

- St. Omer (France)-Cremona Hockey (Italy), 3-4 penalties (5-6 aggregate)

- Sporting-Cronenberg (Germany), 19-3 (36-8 aggregate)

- Reus (Spain)-Turquel (Portugal), 7-5 (10-7 aggregate)

- Vilafranca (Spain)-Juv. Viana (Portugal), 5-3 (8-6 aggregate)

 

Quarter-final draw in full:

- Reus (Spain)-Vilafranca (Spain)

- OC Barcelos (Portugal)-Wasken Lodi (Italy)

- Matera (Italy)-Cremona Hockey (Italy)

- Sarzana (Italy)-Sporting

Jorge Jesus' side drawn against the in-form Germans

The Europa League draw this Monday morning has set Sporting against the German side Bayer Leverkusen.

Bayer Leverkusen was founded two years before Sporting, by two employees of the pharmaceutical company Bayer. Hailing from the North Rhine-Westphalia region, Leverkusen have a UEFA Cup (1988) and German DFB Cup (1993) to their name and have finished fifth in the Bundesliga on five occasions (1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2011).

The German side currently sit in sixth place in their domestic league, with seven wins, three draws and six loses. Leverkusen's European campaign this season actually started in the Champions League, but a difficult group topped by Barcelona and Roma saw them eventually finish in third.

In terms of previous encounters between the two sides, Sporting have drawn one and lost three, in the 1997/98 and 2000/01 Champions League group stage. In fact, Leverkusen represent a bit of a curse or the team from Alvalade, with Sporting never actually having managed to win a game in Germany in European competition.

BAYER LEVERKUSEN STATS

- Founded: 1st of July 1904

- Stadium: Bay Arena (30,210)

- Coach: Roger Schmidt (German 48 years old)

- 2014/15 Season: 4th in Bundesliga

- Current Season: 6 in Bundesliga after 16 matches

- Main Players: Lars Bender, Cälhanoglu, Bellarabi, Chicharito and Kiessling

- Last XI used (B. Mönchengladbach, 5-0): Leno; Hilbert, Toprak, Tah, Wendell; Kramer, Kampl; Bellarabi, Cälhanoglu; Chicharito and Kiessling

Find out more about who Sporting could face in the Europa League knock-out stages

Sporting secured second place in Europa League Group H this Thursday, courtesy of a memorable 3-1 over Besiktas in Lisbon. Lokomotiv Moscow topped the group, leaving Sporting with 13 possible opponents in the next round, to be drawn on Monday in Nyon.

Possible opponents:

- Manchester United (England)

- Bayer Leverkusen (Germany)

- Olympiacos (Greece)

- Molde (Norway)

- Liverpool (England)

- Krasnodar (Russia)

- Napoli (Italy)

- Rapid Vienna (Austria)

- Lazio (Italy)

- Tottenham (England)

- Basel (Switzerland)

- Athl. Bilbao (Spain)

- Schalke 04 (Germany)

Fifth round sets up 2014/15 final repeat

Sporting will travel to Braga for the Portuguese fifth round. The fixture has been penciled in for the 15th to the 17th of December, in the AXA Stadium.

“This is the kind of thing the draw can throw at you are Sporting is ready for it. It is a replay of last year's final. Unfortunately it isn't in Alvlade, but we will be going for the win, said Sporting SAD representative Sancho Freitas at the draw.

Hortically, the two sides have already met on 16 occasions in the Portuguese Cup, with Sporitng having won nine and drawn three. Here is a complete run down of the previous encounters:

- 1958/59, 1st leg quarter-finals - Sporting-Sp. Braga, 6-2

Goals: Vadinho (3), Hugo, Faustino Pinto and Morais; Fernando Mendonça (2)

- 1958/59, 2nd leg quarter-finals - Sp. Braga-Sporting, 1-3

Goals: Ferreirinha; Vadinho and Diego (2)

- 1960/61, 1st leg last-16 - Sp. Braga-Sporting, 1-6

Goals: Teixeira; Figueiredo (3), David Júlio, Diego and Hugo

- 1960/61, 2nd leg last-16 - Sporting-Sp. Braga, 9-0

Goals: Diego (3), Figueiredo (3) and Fernando Puglia (3)

- 1965/66, 1st leg semi-finals - Sp. Braga-Sporting, 1-1

Goals: Bino; Morais

- 1965/66, 2nd leg semi-finals - Sporting-Sp. Braga, 1-1

Goals: Oliveira Duarte; Perrichon

- 1965/66, semi-final replay – Sp. Braga-Sporting, 1-0

Goal: Perrichon

- 1969/70, 1st leg quarter-finals – Sporting-Sp. Braga, 6-1

Goals: Marinho (3), Gonçalves and Nélson Fernandes (2); Fernando

- 1969/70, 2nd leg quarter-finals - Sp. Braga-Sporting, 0-2

Goals: Lourenço and Marinho

- 1980/81, 2nd round – Sp. Braga-Sporting, 4-2

Goals: Cavungi, Jacques, Malheiro and Germano; Jordão (2)

- 1981/82, Final - Sporting-Sp. Braga, 4-0

Goals: Oliveira (2), Jordão and Manuel Fernandes

- 1993/94, 5th round - Sporting-Sp. Braga, 2-1

Marcadores: Figo and Iordanov; Fernando Pires

- 1997/98, quarter-finals – Sp. Braga-Sporting, 3-1

Goals: Bruno, Formoso and Karoglan; Giménez

- 2011/12, 4th round - Sporting-Sp. Braga, 2-0

Goals: Capel and Insúa

- 2014/15, Final - Sporting-Sp. Braga, 2-2 (3-1, penalties)

Goals: Slimani and Montero; Éder and Rafa 

 

Draw in full:

- V. Setúbal (I)-Rio Ave (I)

- Desp. Aves (II)-Nacional (I)

- Boavista (I)-Académica (I)

- Gil Vicente (II)-Portimonense (II)

- Feirense (II)-FC Porto (I)

- Sp. Braga (I)-SPORTING

- Estoril (I)-Penafiel (II)

- Amarante (CPP)-Arouca (I)

Portuguese Cup third round on the 18th of October

The Portuguese Cup third round draw has handed Sporting a visit to Vila Franca de Xira to take on Vilafranquense, in a calendar that will see every I Liga side play away from home.

“Every opponent deserves respect. Sporting can’t think about anything but winning the competition again this season”, said Sporting SAD representative Sancho Freitas at the draw.

Draw in full:
Loures (CNS))-Boavista (I)
União-Rio Ave (I)
Vianense-Benfica (I)
Leixões-Arouca (I)
Gil Vicente-Tondela (I)
Sanjoanense-Académica (I)
Coruchense-V. Setúbal (I)
Varzim-FC Porto (I)
Penafiel-V. Guimarães (I)
Ac. Viseu-Sp. Braga (I)
Naval-P. Ferreira (I)
Mosteirense-Nacional (I)
Gondomar-Estoril (I)
Sertanense-U. Madeira (I)
Lusit. Lourosa-Marítimo (I)
Vilafranquense-SPORTING (I)
Olhanense-Belenenses (I)
Desp. Aves-Moreirense (I)
Operário-Salgueiros 08
Farense-Rio Tinto
Trofense-Pedras Rubras/Santa Clara
Coimbrões-Fafe
Casa Pia-Oriental
Amarante-Bragança
Louletano-Desp. Chaves
Cova da Piedade-Alcanenense
Malveira-Praiense
Angrense-Torre Moncorvo
Atlético dos Arcos-Caldas
Pampilhosa-Portimonense
Famalicão-Feirense
Leiria and Marrazes-Benfica Castelo Branco